How do you improve on a news site that’s already successful and already minimalist? Zach Seward and Daniel Lee explain that a mobile first mindset helped refine and enhance the redesign of qz.com—for both users and advertisers.

For some organizations, “mobile” means a website that works on tablets and smartphones. For Alex Breuer of The Guardian, mobile means challenging editorial conventions and rethinking the fundamental form of a 200-year-old publication.

You’d learn a lot if your first responsive project was for SB Nation, one of the most popular sports sites on the web with more than 70 million unique users. For Trei Brundrett, Chief Product Officer for Vox Media, going responsive means iteratively improving an entire network of media brands.

Publishers must take advantage of increased traffic on mobile. But how? Scher Foord of Condé Nast explains how rolling out responsive redesigns across all their magazine brands helps them adapt to changing consumer behavior and meet advertiser demand.

From the LA Times, Megan Garvey and Emily Smith tell us their responsive redesign delivers an improved experience for users, offers advertisers a better environment for their campaigns, and gave their journalists a morale boost with a website they could be proud of.

As the first major site to go responsive, it’s only fitting that The Boston Globe is the first episode of our podcast. We talk with Miranda Mulligan about the politics between the newsroom and the design team, and how responsive design brought them together.